Assen Jablensky1. 1. The University of Western Australia, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Perth WA 6000, Australia. assen@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To provide an introduction to the concepts and methods of psychiatric epidemiology for non-specialist readers. METHODS: An overview of concepts and research procedures based on the published literature. CONCLUSION: Psychiatric epidemiology is a key mental health discipline that has adopted and developed a variety of methods and procedures for the study of complex mental disorders. In its future development, psychiatric epidemiology is likely to seek an integration of the conceptual and methodological advances of molecular biology and neuroscience within the population-based and social framework of epidemiology as a basic science of public health.
OBJECTIVE: To provide an introduction to the concepts and methods of psychiatric epidemiology for non-specialist readers. METHODS: An overview of concepts and research procedures based on the published literature. CONCLUSION:Psychiatric epidemiology is a key mental health discipline that has adopted and developed a variety of methods and procedures for the study of complex mental disorders. In its future development, psychiatric epidemiology is likely to seek an integration of the conceptual and methodological advances of molecular biology and neuroscience within the population-based and social framework of epidemiology as a basic science of public health.
Authors: Sarah McCue Horwitz; Christine A Demeter; Maria E Pagano; Eric A Youngstrom; Mary A Fristad; L Eugene Arnold; Boris Birmaher; Mary Kay Gill; David Axelson; Robert A Kowatch; Thomas W Frazier; Robert L Findling Journal: J Clin Psychiatry Date: 2010-10-05 Impact factor: 4.384
Authors: Emily Gentes; Paul A Dennis; Nathan A Kimbrel; Angela C Kirby; Lauren P Hair; Jean C Beckham; Patrick S Calhoun Journal: Psychopathol Rev Date: 2015